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Author, prize-winning playwright and award-winning historian Meredith Bean McMath is the Managing Director of Run Rabbit Run Productions, Inc. and Run Rabbit Run Theatre company. Her works include original plays, documentaries and living history presentations on behalf of museums and preservation groups which include The Lincoln Preservation Foundation, The Waterford Foundation, The National Trust's Oatlands Plantation, The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, The Newseum, and The Museum of The Shenandoah Valley. Through RUN RABBIT RUN THEATRE, McMath brings together area artists to produce high caliber theatre productions. From its very first production - the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival production of McMath's satire, Case 22 - Run Rabbit Run has won critical acclaim for its stage adaptations and musicals, contemporary and original plays. McMath holda a BA in History from the The College of William and Mary and an MS in Arts Administration from Shenandoah University. |
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SERVICE
McMath currently serves as on the Board of Directors as Marketing Director for VSA - Loudoun County, the nonprofit organization to providing arts and theatre arts programs for the disabled and their families. Former nonprofit service: Marketing Director and Board Member for the Loudoun Lyric Opera; service on the boards on the Loudoun Arts Council and the Hillsboro Community Association; committee work on the Economic Task Force for the Leesburg Performing Arts Center and the Loudoun Youth Initiative. She's also served as a Region IVb Grant Panelist on behalf of the VA Commission for the Arts and as a Theatre Judge for The Loudoun Arts Council's annual Gale Waldron Excellence in the Arts awards. EDUCATION
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HONORS
- Best Director of a Musical, DC Metro Theatre Arts “Best of 2012” (Once Upon A Christmas Carol)
- 2011 Graduate Student Award, Shenandoah University
- 2010 “Women with Vision”, Franklin Park Arts Center 2010
- First Prize for the play, “Sticks and Stones”, Source Theatre, WDC 2003
- League of Women Voters Award for advancing the knowledge of women's History, 2002
- Loudoun History Award for "Significant contribution to Loudoun History 1996
In this July 2018 interview, Nancy Wyatt of My Persuasive Presentations takes a close look at Run Rabbit Run Theatre and McMath's work:
"My evocative conversation with Meredith reminded me of the adage given to actors using the Acting Stanislavski method. It states that, while performing, they should listen and respond, not just memorize their lines and speak from rote. Meredith lives Method Acting in a real-life expressive discourse..."
"My evocative conversation with Meredith reminded me of the adage given to actors using the Acting Stanislavski method. It states that, while performing, they should listen and respond, not just memorize their lines and speak from rote. Meredith lives Method Acting in a real-life expressive discourse..."